Kim Jiyoung Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo - A Book About the F Word (Feminism)

Updated: December 7, 2021

The trailer for the film adaptation of the book!

Links from Part 1 of the episode!

• Kim Ji-young, Born 1982: Feminist film reignites tensions in South Korea [BBC]

• Stars suffer due to book backlash: Due to its feminist themes, ‘Kim Ji Young Born 1982’ has become a source of controversy for some [Hankyoreh]

• Novel 'Kim Ji-young, Born 1982' most borrowed this year [Yonhap]

• Why is Son Preference Declining in South Korea? The Role of Development and Public Policy, and the Implications for China and India [Chung & Das Gupta]

• Did South Korea's Population Policy Work Too Well? [PRB]

• Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence, and Representation in Industrializing Korea [Barraclough] - full book

• Kim Koo, Shin Saimdang to Be Featured on New Bills [Korea Times]

• All set to tackle every married woman's biggest nightmare in South Korea [Straits Times]

• On housework, S. Korean men believe in “fairness”…but don’t act that way [Hankyoreh]

• Young Men Embrace Gender Equality, but They Still Don’t Vacuum [NYT]

• Women Still Handle Main Household Tasks in U.S. [Gallup]

• Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities, Little Help From Dads [NYT]

• Korean men do least housework in OECD [Korea Times]

• ACT ON EQUAL EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT FOR WORK-FAMILY RECONCILIATION - [Korean Government Legislation]

• Concluding comments of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Republic of Korea [United Nations]

• The Pursuit of Gender Quality: An Uphill Battle: How does KOREA Compare? [OECD]

• The Pursuit of Gender Quality: An Uphill Battle: How does the UNITED STATES Compare? [OECD]

• Korea’s gender wage gap widest in OECD [The Korea Herald]

• The Struggles of South Korea’s Working Women [The Diplomat]

• Korean men taking paternity leave hit record high in 2019 [Pulse]

• 9 in 10 workplace sexual harassment victims experience retaliation: study [The Korea Herald}

• Female prosecutor opens up about sexual harassment [The Korea Herald]

• The best and worst places to be a working woman [The Economist] - cited in the book

• Men earn 1.6 times more than women in S. Korea: gender ministry [Yonhap]

Links from Part 2 of the episode!

• What Is Feminism? [IWDA]

• Antenatal and postnatal mental health: clinical management and service guidance [NICE]

• Stigmatizing mental illness leads to high suicide rate [Korea Biomedical Review]

• Korea neglecting mental health issues: experts [The Korea Herald]

• Why is mental health treatment sluggish in Korea? [Korea Biomedical Review]

• It’s Madness - The Politics of mental health in Colonial Korea [book by Theodore Jun Yoo]

• Gangnam murderer says he killed “because women have always ignored me” [Hankyoreh]

• Random murder triggers angry response from women [Korea Times]

• [FROM THE SCENE] Korean women respond to Gangnam murder case [The Korea Herald]

• Gangnam murder was not a hate crime: police [The Korea Herald]

• History and Inception [MeToo Movement]

• South Korea’s #MeToo Movement Challenges Workplace Sexual Harassment [VOA]

• Park Won-soon: Mayor of Seoul found dead after going missing [BBC]

• Seoul's mayor died before he could face sexual harassment claims in court. A new report says the allegations were credible [CNN]

• Ex-school principal accused of spycam voyeurism handed over to prosecution [The Korea Herald]

• South Korean Women Fight Back Against Spy Cams In Public Bathrooms [NPR]

• Stacey Dooley Investigates: 'My daughter was tormented by spycam sex crime' [BBC]

• Empowered by #MeToo, a new generation fights sexual abuse in South Korea’s schools [LA Times]

• Arrests over hotel spycam porn ring that filmed 1,600 guests across South Korea [Guardian]

• Goo Hara: late K-pop star’s ex-boyfriend jailed for sex video blackmail [South China Morning Post]

• The spark that ignited the ‘Nth room’ fire [Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Sulli: The woman who rebelled against the K-pop world [BBC]

• Misogyny furor doesn’t subside after murder [Korea JoongAng Daily]

• Blue House says possible to shut down far-right website Ilbe [The Korea Herald]

• South Korea Reconsiders a Rite of Manhood: The Draft [The New York Times]

• MILITARY SERVICE ACT [Korea Legislation Research Institute]

• South Korea’s young men are fighting against feminism [CNN]

• As #MeToo reaches South Korea, pressured young men turn on Moon [Nikkei Asia]

• More Koreans frustrated by 'broken social ladder' [The Korea Times]

• Why So Many Young Men in South Korea Hate Feminism [Foreign Policy]

• Stars suffer due to book backlash: Due to its feminist themes, ‘Kim Ji Young Born 1982’ has become a source of controversy for some [Korea Joong Ang Daily]

• Feminist novel becomes center of controversy in South Korea [The Korea Herald]

• Feminism Without Morality, Neoliberalism as Feminist Praxis: A Computational Textual Analysis of Womad, a South Korean Online “Feminist” Community [by Koo and Kim, International Journal of Communication]

• Despite backlash, ‘Kim Ji Young’ stars persevere: Adaptation of controversial book aims to help start conversations across Korea [Korea Joong Ang Daily]

• Cho Nam-joo: the novelist inspiring east Asia’s #MeToo movement [Financial Times]